400 MB of FBI contractor data released by Anonymous
Source: MYONA
The Anonymous group has promised to embarrass the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and they just successfully did it.
400 megabytes of contractual documents containing spreadsheets, résumés, planning documents, even photographs has been leaked by the hacktivists group in the Pirate Bay site.
The contractor company to FBI, ManTech, declined to comment further on the incident, but they do posted a note on their site.
“All organizations attract cyber threats in our highly networked world,” the company said. “Our practice is generally not to comment on reports involving security related matters. However, given current publicity, we wish to assure our customers, employees, shareholders and business partners that ManTech takes seriously recent reports of a cyber threat, and we responsibly and actively address all sources of information about threats to our information and assets and those of our customers.”
PCWorld has reached a spokeswoman for FBI, but she too declined to comment on the alleged Mantech hack.
ManTech is also a contractor for various government agencies which are intelligence agencies, the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security. They reported to have a total revenue of $2.9 billion in 2010.
They are not the only company though that has been breached by Anonymous and their partner in crime, Lulzsec. HBGeary and Unveillance among the high profile victims this year while Lulzsec has attacking U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Senate and members of the FBI’s InfraGuard information-sharing program and others.
The Anonymous group has promised to embarrass the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and they just successfully did it.
400 megabytes of contractual documents containing spreadsheets, résumés, planning documents, even photographs has been leaked by the hacktivists group in the Pirate Bay site.
The contractor company to FBI, ManTech, declined to comment further on the incident, but they do posted a note on their site.
“All organizations attract cyber threats in our highly networked world,” the company said. “Our practice is generally not to comment on reports involving security related matters. However, given current publicity, we wish to assure our customers, employees, shareholders and business partners that ManTech takes seriously recent reports of a cyber threat, and we responsibly and actively address all sources of information about threats to our information and assets and those of our customers.”
PCWorld has reached a spokeswoman for FBI, but she too declined to comment on the alleged Mantech hack.
ManTech is also a contractor for various government agencies which are intelligence agencies, the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security. They reported to have a total revenue of $2.9 billion in 2010.
They are not the only company though that has been breached by Anonymous and their partner in crime, Lulzsec. HBGeary and Unveillance among the high profile victims this year while Lulzsec has attacking U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Senate and members of the FBI’s InfraGuard information-sharing program and others.
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